Eight residents from Mongoilo Village, Bulango Ulu District, Bone Bolango District, Gorontalo accidentally discovered the wreckage of an aircraft in the border forest area between Atinggola and Bolangmongondow, Bolmut District. At that time, eight residents are looking for swiftlet nests in the forest.
Uyun, one of the entourage explained the chronology of the discovery of the wreckage. At that time, they were resting on a hill. Suddenly one of the entourage saw a white object like a plane.
Their allegations are correct, the thing is a wrecked plane marked 'Merpati'. His condition has been wrapped in a thicket. Around the wreckage, even overgrown with large trees.
"Out of curiosity we immediately rushed to the object, Seeing that, one of us immediately took a cell phone and capture the moment," he said.
After capturing the moment the entourage of bird's nest seekers went straight away because their target came to the forest to look for swallow's nest. They exit the forest in Moongoilo Village, Bulango Ulu District, Bone Bolango District.
Based on the search, the wreckage was an NC-212 aircraft 'Karaurpa' Merpati registered PK-NCY with flight number MZ 7970. The plane crashed on Wednesday afternoon, January 31, 1992 when flying from Luwuk to Manado.
Sam Ratulangi Airport Authority, Wensy Malonda, confirmed the truth of the data. "It was true that a plane crashed in the Bolmut Forest area in 1992, but the case was closed."
From several sources mentioned, the plane was flying from Luwuk to Manado berpenumpang 18 people. The aircraft was reported to have landed emergency in the forest area of Gorontalo (before parting with North Sulawesi).
"The Manado-Gorontalo plane crashed in the forest area between Gorontalo and Bolmut where all passengers were successfully evacuated and survived, so there is only a plane that was left behind because of heavy field and the case has been closed," he explained.
Wensy has been matching the code and type of wreck that found 8 residents nest swiftlet search. The wreckage was deliberately left behind because of the difficult terrain to evacuate.
"The wreckage of the plane that was found by the residents was the PK NCY Merpati airplane that crashed in 1992, all of its passengers were declared safe, so we make sure it was the wreckage that fell in 1992. Now the case is closed," he explained.